Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
| 2 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 3 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 4 | But after a few days Mcduff lost interest . |
| 5 | But after a few days , with no sign of the weather clearing , he began to feel like a prisoner . |
| 6 | Had the French attempted to move inland he would , it seems likely , have fought a defensive battle on ground of his own choosing , but after a few days , with not a shot fired on either side , the French re-embarked and de Tourville sailed home with his fleet intact . |
| 7 | But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ . |
| 8 | But after a few days Clare began to worry . |
| 9 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 10 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 11 | But in a few days ’ time it might look a little different . ’ |
| 12 | Very gifted , but in the early days the ensemble was not always very good . |
| 13 | In the weeks ahead the loneliness would intensify , but in the early days there was too much happening to keep homesickness at bay . |
| 14 | He bombarded us in his zest for education , entertainment and , indeed , any intellectual exercise , but in the early days was oblivious to our hesitant reactions . |
| 15 | But in the final days of the race to the White House , Hillary 's voice seemed to disappear . |
| 16 | But in the following days nothing changed . |
| 17 | But in the later days when they made mass production was coming in , the components for them , it was easier to buy a component and fit it than to , to make up a , a piece in your own workshop . |
| 18 | It has always happened , of course , but in the old days , when the stock market was a smaller and more human place , the intimacy of dealing lent some protection . |
| 19 | Our ships may be small , Mr. Mottram , but in the old days they were liners — that is , they made regular , scheduled runs from various ports on the Continent to the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | Erm I know it 's associated with over extraction of water at certain points but but be that as it may , but in the old days the Sussex Lands Committee er used to be er a county function and did take an overview erm of the whole West Sussex scene in terms of what happened erm it is now really now erm not our responsibility , although we put members on it , it 's a now fairly weak er joint body but it 's pretty toothless . |
| 21 | Ah ha , but in the old days they used to have |
| 22 | But in the last days of 1879 a frightful storm blew the bridge down as a train was crossing , and 75 more people lost their lives . |
| 23 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 24 | Sparrow Force landed at the island 's north-west port of Koebang to protect its airfield , but within a few days the Independent Company , with some Dutch troops , was sent east along the coast to occupy Dili in the Portuguese half of the island ( see map p. 77 ) where they landed on 17 December 1941 . |
| 25 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 26 | As we shall see in the next chapter , the conference on the third day passed a resolution , which led to the formation of the BDDA , but on the preceding days it was concerned with the Report of the Royal Commission and its recommendations in so far as they affected deaf and dumb people . |